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The Trillions of Dollars Forgotten When Tracking the Energy Transition

Companies are annually generating trillions of dollars of revenue from clean energy — but many of these sales numbers are overlooked when tracking capital flow in decarbonization. 

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Last year, global energy transition investment topped $1.1 trillion, according to BloombergNEF. The International Energy Agency, using a more expansive definition of energy transition, tracked $1.7 trillion dollars in 2022. With 2023’s wind and solar installations expected to exceed 440 gigawatts, and equipment costs stable year-on-year, it is a new era where a trillion dollars of investment is the floor, not the ceiling.